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Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 406

Pink Ref. 533, Doctor?s Watch Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 868369, case No. 672208, Ref. 533. Made in 1952, sold on September 11th, 1953. Very fine and very rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, pulsometer and an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 55,000 - 75,000

USD 52,000 - 70,000 / EUR 36,000 - 50,000

Sold: CHF 56,400

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, flat bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back. D. Two-tone silver with applied pink gold baton indexes and Roman half-hour numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds track, outermost pulsometer graduated to 30 pulsations, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute registers. Pink gold baton hands. M. 13???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 23 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance adjusted to 8 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 10 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3

Good
Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

Ref. 533 Production of this reference began in 1937. It is identical to Ref. 130 with the exception of the bezel, which is flat, whereas Ref. 130 has a concave bezel.
The Extract from the Archives confirms that this watch was made with a pulsometer scale.